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LONDON HEALTH CARE CUTS PROTEST, 2014 SOLOAROUNDWORLD IN 25 DAYS, PAUL HODGE, Ch 15 – Video

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LONDON HEALTH CARE CUTS PROTEST, 2014 SOLOAROUNDWORLD IN 25 DAYS, PAUL HODGE, Ch 15
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Mobile Health Care Innovation: TechNOW interview, David Farnes, CATA, Health Care Champion – Video

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Mobile Health Care Innovation: TechNOW interview, David Farnes, CATA, Health Care Champion
CATA CEO, John Reid, interviews, CATA #39;s Mobile Health Care Lead, David Farnes on a new submission to the Advisory Panel on Healthcare Innovation, entitled, " Mobile Health in Canada: Turn Up...

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Health Exchange: Health-care costs: Its time for patients to take control

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This is the last installment in a four-part series.

LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- Health analysts agree that its time for the patient to start being more of a consumer.

Obamacare, controls on Medicare spending, cutting back on malpractice litigation, more preventive care and even healthier lifestyles have all been touted as ways to cut costs in the health-care system. But together theyve made little more than a dent in the ever-rising cost of health care, which has been outpacing inflation for decades.

Mark Smith, 61, a self-employed documentary and commercial producer in Jersey City, N.J., has been paying for an individual policy for his family for several years. He says hes been seeing 16% increases in his premiums every year, sometimes more. His last increase would have put his monthly premium at $1,850 a month, even though its just him and his wife on the policy now.

It will always outpace whatever the economic conditions are, by a lot, he said. I dont have an infinite budget for health insurance. So Smith is opting out of the individual market and latching on to a health plan through his wifes new job, which should cut his monthly premiums down to $500.

Health reforms will have little meaningful effect on prices that continue to outpace inflation unless consumers get in the game and start to push back, experts say.

They agree that if the U.S. is to maintain a free-market style of health care, those who buy health plans need to be active players in the system. Just as they would when buying a car or purchasing groceries, health-care consumers need to have enough information to know what a fair price is and to have enough leverage to demand that price.

(Read: 10 ways patients can lower their health-care costs.)

You cant be a citizen any longer and not realize there are no more magical solutions to these problems, said Dr. Reed Tuckson, a former executive for UnitedHealth Group Inc. and the American Medical Association, now an industry consultant. The increase in Medicare expenditures is so huge. And theres no way that youre going to have any kind of taxation that could possibly solve that dilemma.

Accomplishing the task of becoming price-conscious wont be easy, however, for a group of consumers that for decades had insurers screen their costs for them.

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Jonathan Gruber Said Seniors Are Too Stupid To Pick Right Healthcare – Video

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Jonathan Gruber Said Seniors Are Too Stupid To Pick Right Healthcare
Jonathan Gruber Said Seniors Are Too Stupid To Pick Right Healthcare. Old People Need To Die http://dailycaller.com/2014/11/16/gruber-seniors-do-a-terrible-job-choosing-health-care-plans/...

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Baptist Memorial Health Care Gets Big Gift For New Pediatric Hospital – Video

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Baptist Memorial Health Care Gets Big Gift For New Pediatric Hospital
Have you heard that Baptist #39;s soon-to-open pediatric hospital will be called The Spence and Becky Wilson Baptist Children #39;s Hospital, due to a transformative gift from the Wilsons? Click...

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Standard & Poor’s U.S. Consumer, Retail, And Health Care Weekly Review (Nov. 17) – Video

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Standard Poor #39;s U.S. Consumer, Retail, And Health Care Weekly Review (Nov. 17)
In this segment of Standard Poor #39;s U.S. Consumer, Retail, and Health Care Weekly Review, Associate Director Jacqueline Hui highlights sector trends and the actions we recently took on INC...

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Inside Obama’s Plan To Beat Health Care Enrollment Expecations

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WASHINGTON -- Willie Sutton supposedly said he robbed banks because that's where the money is. As the Obama administration tries to firm up the health care law, officials are going deep into Texas because, they argue, that's where the uninsured are.

A bold play in the second most-populous state is critical for the administration to make another big dent in the ranks of those without health care coverage. With few Texas leaders supporting the health care law, the state's uninsured rate barely budged during the first open enrollment period. By the middle of 2014, it stood at 24 percent -- the worst in the country.

But Texas isn't just an inviting playing field for health care advocates. It's also an opportunity to send a powerful political message that a law much maligned by Republicans could succeed in a state run by them. With these high stakes, Obama administration officials plan heavy outreach.

The primary focus will be on the state's biggest cities: Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston and San Antonio. Federal officials have teamed up with mayors and local officials. They've also struck alliances with businesses. The grocery chain H-E-B, for instance, has agreed to host navigators in its stores on weekends to expand the number of people exposed to the insurance market.

The map looks very similar," said Marlon Marshall, who as special assistant to the president and principal deputy director of public engagement is tasked with Obamacare outreach. "The demographics look very similar. But we are just taking what we learned from last year and going deeper on both.

The administration's game plan for Texas is a microcosm of its approach to the second year of Obamacare enrollment. Unlike last year, when officials were playing catch-up following the disastrous launch of healthcare.gov, this year the White House has the luxury of refining a strategy getting individuals re-enrolled and signing up the uninsured.

In an interview with the Huffington Post, Marshall outlined a plan that's best described as health care micro-targeting. Beyond figuring out where the uninsured live and knocking on their doors, officials will target folks where they shop, pray, read and congregate. They have pinpointed the most persuasive messages, elevated the most convincing messengers, and optimized their timing.

Some reports, for instance, have noted how little flash has accompanied the start of the second enrollment period. But that, officials said, is by design. They want to grab headlines when people are most likely to sign up: Opening day, the first two weeks in December (when people get coverage so they have it at the start of 2015), and before the enrollment period ends in mid-February.

President Barack Obama will kick off open enrollment in his weekly radio address on Saturday, an aide said.

The micro-targeting is much more than geographic. The administration also plans to enhance its outreach to Hispanic populations, where the uninsured rate remains high. Last year, 10 percent of the administration's ad budget focused on Latino outreach. This year, it's around 30 percent.

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